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International News Title: Former Israeli Ambassador: Obama Has a Problem–with America The most explosive passage in Michael Orens new book on the frayed U.S.-Israel relationship is not about President Barack Obamas repeated fights with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Rather, it is about Obama himself. Struggling to understand how Obamawho has genuine empathy for Israel, Oren sayscould adopt policies and postures so hostile to the Jewish state, Oren turns to Obamas first memoir, Dreams from My Father. What he reads shocks him: More alarming for me still were Obamas attitudes towards America. Vainly, I scoured Dreams from My Father for some expression of reverence, even respect, for the country its author would someday lead. Instead, the book criticizes Americans for their capitalism and consumer culture, for despoiling their environment and maintaining antiquated power structures. Traveling abroad, they exhibited ignorance and arrogancethe very shortcomings the presidents critics assigned to him. Speaking to Breitbart News last week, Oren recalled his impressions of Dreams. Obama said nothing good about America in his memoir, Oren says. Here was a man without a word of praise or gratitude to Americaand yet no one was listening to what Obama truly believed. That said a lot to me about where America was when Obama was elected, Oren recalls. Oren, the American-born historian who served as Israels ambassador to the U.S. during President Obamas first term, exposes shocking new details about the Obama administrations treatment of Israel in his new book, Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide. Some of the episodes, such as Obamas snub of Netanyahu during a 2010 visit to the White House, are well-known. Others are not, such as an encounter between Oren and then-UN Ambassador Susan Rice in New York, in which she threatened to drop support for Israel at the UN if the Netanyahu government did not freeze all settlement activity: If you dont appreciate the fact that we defend you night and day, tell us, Susan fumed, practically rapping her forehead. We have other important things to do. Other clashes are more subtle, but no less jarring, such as Obamas decision to ignore Israels role in earthquake relief in Haiti: Help continues to flow in, not just from the United States but from Brazil, Mexico, Canada, France, Colombia, and the Dominican Republic, the president declared. Omitted from the list was Israel, the first state to arrive in Haiti and the first to reach the disaster fully prepared. I heard the presidents words and felt like I had been kicked in the chest. On another occasion, the White House blackballed several guests from the ceremony at which Obama awarded Israeli President Shimon Peres the Presidential Medal of Freedombecause they happened to have criticized Obama on television. Oren, who was an historian before becoming a diplomat and politician, is uniquely placed to offer an authoritative explanation, in exacting detail. At times, Oren writes, Obama adopted a friendlier posture. Yet, for every reaffirmation of the alliance, the administration took steps that disconcerted or even imperiled Israel, he writes. The root cause, Oren says, applying the historians analytical tools to his personal observations, was Obamas approach to America itselfnot to Israel. Because Obama sees nothing special about America, its dominance in the world presents a moral problem for him. As president, Oren notes, Obama set out to solve that problem by courting Americas enemies and shunning its allies. Obama is not anti-Israel, Oren argues, much less antisemitic, but his beliefs about America have meant a change in relations with Israel, a country deeply invested in Americas militaryand moralsuperiority. These are not the ravings of a right-wing Likudnik. Oren supported the disengagement from Gaza in 2005. He ran against Benjamin Netanyahus party in the recent Israeli elections. He spoke out against Netanyahus speech to Congress in March. And he once admired Barack Obama. Yet Oren, who served as Israels ambassador from 2009 to 2013, builds a powerful argument that Obama is to blame for the stunning decline in U.S.-Israel relations. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: redleghunter (#0)
He started his presidency flying all over the world apologizing for how terrible and unfair America was..... he's a worthless POS and traitor IMHO!
Not just your opinion!
Yup. As president, Obama set out to solve his problem by courting Americas enemies and shunning its allies. ...to the point of pushing it toward self destruction.
We already know this. Not only doesn't Obama see anything special about America, he views America as a negative force in the world. Obama sat in a Black Liberation Church for 20 years. Black Liberation Theology is a far left ideology that believes the white American power structure (business and government) is responsible for most of the world's ills. Obama sat in that church, listening to their nonsense for 20 years, and then he told us that he never heard anything that was "radical". Of course not, believing that America is the world's greatest evil is not radical at all to Black Liberationists and their fellow travelers on the lunatic left. We already know this, or at least I do...
Yep. His views are very clear.
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